AustriaandAND⤬THE JUNCTION
2 SHARED EVENTSSwitzerland

Entangled histories

2 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · AUT LEFT · CHE RIGHT

1. 15 Nov 1315

   Battle of Morgarten

   Men of Schwyz and Uri ambushed and destroyed a Habsburg army of knights under Duke Leopold I at Morgarten, the first great victory of the Confederation and a celebrated triumph of foot soldiers over mounted nobility.

   War & Rupture · from the Switzerland chronicle · The Oath of the Forest Cantons and the Old Swiss Confederacy · REFS 1 — Battle of Morgarten

2. 9 Jul 1386

   Battle of Sempach

   The Confederates routed a Habsburg army at Sempach and killed Duke Leopold III of Austria, breaking Habsburg power in the region and confirming the Confederacy as a serious military force.

   War & Rupture · from the Switzerland chronicle · The Oath of the Forest Cantons and the Old Swiss Confederacy · REFS 2 — Battle of Morgarten, Switzerland: The Swiss Confederation during the Late Middle Ages